Speak The Culture: Spain: Be Fluent In Spanish Life And Culture

E-Book Overview

* Provides a deeper, long-term understanding of the nation and its people* Designed to supplement the “usual suspect” guide booksA guidebook can show you where to go, a phrasebook what to say when you get there. Only Speak the Culture: Spain will lead you to the nation’s soul. Spain boasts a rich and sometimes misunderstood culture, itself infused with the influences of other great and distant civilizations. Spanish life, language and culture in its widest sense is a major force of growing influence. How many outside it understand its origins and significance?Through exploring the people, the movements and the lifestyles that have shaped the Spanish experience, you will come to an intimate understanding of Spain and the Spanish.There are many travel guides and manuals on living in Spain. Speak the Culture: Spain is different: a superbly designed, informed and entertaining insight into Spanish life and culture and who the Spanish really are.For new residents, business travelers, holidaymakers, students and lovers of Spain everywhere, Speak the Culture: Spain is an engaging companion and guide to an enviably rich civilization at the heart of Europe. Excerpt“As you might expect Spain’s traditional vernacular architecture isn’t easily pigeonholed; regionalism generates marked variation. Available building materials and, more significantly, climate have always dictated how people build their houses or outbuildings. The Spaniards’ approach to living arrangements is more easily summed up. They’re nothing if not sociable; while northern Europeans anxiously section off their own plot of terra firma, in Spain they seem to enjoy living on top of each other, clustered in apartments and houses around the plaza mayor. It’s not like they’re short of space either—a population density of around 85 per sq km is one of the lowest in Europe.”

E-Book Content

Speak the Culture Spain Speak the Culture Spain E B E F L UEN T IN S PA N IS H LIFE AND CULTURE H I ST O RY, SO CI E T Y A ND L IF E S T Y L E • L IT E RATURE AN D PHIL OSOPHY A RT A ND A R C H IT E C T U R E • C INE M A AN D FASHION M U SI C A N D D R A M A • FO O D A N D D R INK • MEDIA AN D SPORT www.thorogoodpublishing.co.uk www.speaktheculture.co.uk All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed upon the subsequent purchaser. No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action as a result of any material in this publication can be accepted by the author or publisher. All has been done to trace the owners of the various pieces of material used for this book. If further information and proof of ownership should be made available then attribution will be given or, if requested, the said material removed in subsequent editions. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 1 85418605 1 978-185418605-8 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Thorogood Publishing Ltd 10-12 Rivington Street London EC2A 3DU Telephone: 020 7749 4748 Fax: 020 7729 6110 [email protected] www.thorogoodpublishing.co.uk www.speaktheculture.co.uk © 2008 Thorogood Publishing Ltd Publisher Editor in chief Neil T
You might also like

Quantum Philosophy: Understanding And Interpreting Contemporary Science
Authors: Roland Omnes , Arturo Sangalli    160    0


Physics
Authors: Aristotle    189    0


History Behind The Headlines. The Origin Of Conflicts Worldwide
Authors: Meghan Appel O'Meara    205    0


A Theory Of Content And Other Essays
Authors: Fodor J.A.    148    0


Handbook Of Philosophical Logic
Authors: Dov M. Gabbay , Franz Guenthner (eds.)    106    0


логический задачник
Authors: Поварнин С.И.    165    0



Countries And Their Cultures
Authors: Melvin Ember , Carol R. Ember    97    0


Countries And Their Cultures
Authors: Melvin Ember , Carol R. Ember    103    0


Smoke And Mirrors. How Science Reflects Reality
Authors: James Robert Brown    79    0